"The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?"

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Source : Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

Bruno Bettelheim

#Children Quotes #Want Quotes #Be Good Quotes

“The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.”
“I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.”
“I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.”
“I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.”
“I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate. She's really been able to captivate men and women in a way that's appealing, which is a tough line to follow.”

Source : "Q&A: Spencer Grammer on Being TV's Unlikeliest Sexy Detective". Interview with Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2013.
“I want people to retake ownership of their lives. I don't want people with perfect bodies. I want people who are striving to get more fit and feel great. That's what America needs. A lot of American's have lost hope, and I am trying to inspire it back into people.”
“There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own.”
“For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.”

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